I'm setting up a test system with a distributed, replicated GlusterFS volume. I currently run 2 nodes with 2 NICs each. The idea is to have replication and all other gluster internals on one network ...

I'm trying to configure a proof of concept where a server automatically gets spun up and joins a replication cluster. When the server is no longer needed, it gets spun down, and automatically removed ...

For testing purpose, I installed four GlusterFS nodes and created a replicated volume with a replicate count of 4.
Two Gluster nodes reside in DC A, while the other Gluster nodes reside in DC B.
Now ...

I am currently having a closer look at GlusterFS.
For testing reasons, I set up four virtual machines in total, each of them act as a Gluster peer.
Since I have access to two DCs (which are located ...

We are using two servers separated by a WAN to replicate approximately 1TB of data.
On the master side we have a single server with a Gluster volume exported to a number of other servers that write ...

I'm new to GlusterFS but it works really well for me as a distributed file system. I have a question about my setup and if I should use the partition I store the GlusterFS brick on for anything else. ...

I'm setting up a high-availability shared-nothing geographically-distributed web server, using multiple A-records for its domain.
Right now I'm more concerned with high availability -- "When I unplug ...

I have a 2 peer GlusterFS system. It was initially created using simple hostnames file01 and file02. These hosts were added to /etc/hosts to make it work.
Now we want to start using FQDN because we ...

I'm running into a strange high memory usage problem in my environment. I have a two GlusteFS nodes that are serving 26 replicated volumes. Each morning, both servers will consume the majority of all ...

We've set up a mirroring pair of GlusterFS servers. No special tuning, whatever came "out of the box" with GlusterFS-3.5.1 in the official RHEL6 RPM, that's what we have.
The cluster works, but the ...

Previously I asked about mounting GlusterFS at boot in an Ubuntu 12.04 server and the answer was that this was buggy in 12.04 and worked in 14.04. Curious I gave it a try on a virtual machine running ...

I want to start Apache after mounting a NFS (GlusterFS) share, but it keeps starting before the mount step. I set the order in /etc/rc*.d/ but it didn't work.
I always can edit the scripts to sleep a ...

I know many people are using GlusterFS on top on ZFS.
I'm wondering about snapshots: how do you ensure snapshot homogeneity among the nodes? I mean if you do a snapshot on a node, how can you be sure ...

I'm running the official GlusterFS 3.5 packages on an Ubuntu 12.04 box that is acting as both, client and server, and everything seems to be working fine, except mounting the GlusterFS volumes at boot ...

If I run free -m, top and htop, I get different memory uses. The system is also using a small amount of swap. I understand from this question why they are reporting different values (some of the data ...